Monday, August 25, 2014

Earlier this month, Regan invited Duane Dauner (the CEO of CHA) and several other execs from California's
largest hospital corporations to speak at a meeting of SEIU-UHW’s Executive
Board.

The execs -- Duane Dauner, Greg Adams (CEO of Kaiser
Permanente Northern California), Wade
Rose (Vice President of External and Government Relations for Dignity
Health), and Judy Coffin (Dignity’s Vice
President and Associate General Counsel) -- participated in a
talk-show style "panel discussion" with Regan during the meeting.

As Regan sat onstage with his panelists, a handful of
SEIU-UHW members lobbed scripted softball questions to the execs like: "What's
your background?” and "What's the proudest and most

CHA's Duane Dauner

memorable moment in
your career?"

Next, Regan let the Bosses preach to the assembled workers.
"It's time for everyone to sacrifice," said the Bosses. Kaiser's Greg
Adams reportedly told the group:

Healthcare costs are
too high. We have to work together to bring them down. It's time for everyone
to embrace the change and work together.

Next up was Dauner:

We want to maintain a
living wage for healthcare workers. But costs keep rising. We can't keep this
up.

While the Bosses cried “We ain’t got no money" and "The
sky is falling," not a single SEIU-UHW official or board member uttered a peep about ballooning
corporate profits and skyrocketing executive salaries.

Kaiser's Greg Adams

... including Dignity's $776 million in profits during the first
nine months of its fiscal year. Or Kaiser's $2.1 billion in profits during the
first six months of 2014. Or Greg Adams $2.2 million in pay plus nine pension
plans.

After completing his polyamorous sex act with the four
execs, Regan dried the beads of sweat from his brow and presented a motion to
SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board to transfer $10 million of the union's dues dollars to
a joint CHA-SEIU political fund.

The union's board -- with more than 20%
of its elected positions currently vacant -- dutifully consented.

The next day, Regan
told the workers that the fatcat execs had been "very impressed with the
professionalism of the Executive Board.” That's not quite the term Tasty would use.

So why are workers giving $10 million to the hospital
industry's Chamber of Commerce?

It's all part of Regan's partnership deal with the
industry. Under the deal, Regan committed to use SEIU’s political
power to win $15 billion a year of new government funding to fatten hospital
corporations’ bottom line. In exchange, the corporations will push as many as
60,000 hospital workers into SEIU-UHW, which has agreed to force these unsuspecting
workers into pre-negotiated labor contracts with rock-bottom wages and benefits… as well as gag clauses that block the workers and SEIU-UHW from criticizing the companies for bad patient care or excessive profits.

It's a deal with the devil. In fact, it's so despicable that Regan refuses to show a copy to SEIU-UHW’s own Executive Board! When board members ask for one, Regan and Co. reportedly rebuff the workers, saying: "We don't want NUHW to get ahold
of a copy."

Dignity's Wade Rose

What's next for Regan's love affair with the top-hatted paramours?

Regan has invited Dauner and a crew of hospital CEOs to
attend SEIU-UHW’s upcoming "Leadership Assembly," an annual meeting
of rank-and-file members.

And that's not all!

Regan will attempt to expand his
polyamorous sex act by inviting top CEOs from California's nursing home
corporations to attend. Stay tuned!

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Has Kaiser's Cynthia
Telles decided to pull up the stakes and head for the hills?

Telles, one of the members of Kaiser Permanente's vastly overpaid Board of Directors, is selling
her 4,670 square-foot house in Sherman Oaks, a pricey Los Angeles suburb. 5
Bedrooms. 6 Baths. Brazilian mahogany floors. 4-car garage.

Check out this pic of her dining room. (More pics below.)

By all accounts, it's been a difficult few months for
Telles.

Cynthia also happens to sit on the Board of Directors of
scandal-plagued General Motors,
which faces at least $35 million in government fines and multiple class-action
lawsuits for illegally covering up defects in its cars that contributed to the
deaths of at least 13 people.

GM pays Telles $200,000 a year to sit on its board. However,
the ongoing revelations about the scandal appear to be too much for Telles, who
recently announced that she plans to resign her seat.

At Kaiser, Telles pockets another $226,000 a year for
attending just six board meetings a year. (The 1% really struggles, right?) At
Kaiser, Telles has been under
fire for being MIA during the ongoing crisis gripping Kaiser's mental
health services.

Telles -- a psychologist -- is the only member of Kaiser's
board with any mental health training. Nonetheless, she refuses to meet with
Kaiser's own psychologists to discuss the crisis at Kaiser... which has already
resulted in a $4 million fine by government investigators, three class-action
action lawsuits by patients, multiple suicides linked to Kaiser's delayed care,
and a call for a criminal investigation into Kaiser's falsification of appointment
records.

Telles at Airport Commission

Recently, Kaiser caregivers spoke at a meeting of the Los Angeles Airport Commission (yup,
Cynthia also sits on that board) and asked her why she failed to answer any of
the 100+ personal letters from Kaiser mental health therapists -- which NUHW
ultimately posted on a website called DearCynthiaTelles.com

Last week, Northern California’s East Bay Express blasted
Kaiser in a front-page article called "Deadly
Delays," which describes suicides connected to Kaiser's deliberate
delays in providing mental health care to its patients.

So why has Telles decided to put her colossal crib up for
sale?

Perhaps she's planning to downgrade to a 300,000 square-foot
pied a terre now that she'll be missing that yearly $200K check from GM.

If Cynthia needs any relocation advice, I'm sure Tasty's
readers would have plenty of creative ideas.

Here are more pics of Cynthia's house... in case you're in the market.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

In 2009, she was one of the East Coasters who parachuted
into California with Dave Regan and served
as a "Deputy Trustee” during SEIU’s infamous trusteeship of SEIU-UHW.

Malberg -- who’s never been known as the sharpest knife in
the drawer -- was rewarded for her blind loyalty to Regan with a seat on SEIU-UHW’s
Executive Committee and a $150,000-a-year salary.

In a surprise move, Malberg recently announced she was
jumping off Regan’s purple ship for a consulting gig.

Readers may recall Malberg for her role in the infamous
Fresno homecare election. Back in mid-2009, she helped direct SEIU’s campaign
of threats and lies against Fresno's homecare workers -- which included
instructing SEIU organizers to threaten undocumented homecare workers with
deportation unless they voted for SEIU.

In an earlier
post, one of SEIU’s remorseful shocktroopers described Malberg’s role this
way:

i am ashamed to say
that i campaigned for seiu-uhw in fresno in 2009, and seiu-uhw staff - led by
rebecca malberg, debbie schneider, greg pullman instructed other locals' staff
and members to lie to fresno homecare workers.
we told them they would lose their benefits if they voted for nuhw. We told them they would lose everything -
their retirement, their health insurance, their voice. it was so despicable, and unethical. seiu-uhw "leaders" lied not only to
the fresno workers, but the hundreds of rank and file leaders and staff from
locals around the country who were organized or were dispatched to help. we
stalked these fresno homecare workers for weeks... it was sickening, and i am
sorry to have participated in such an illegal act of bullying and lies.

Where is Malberg now?

She recently took a job at a
consulting firm called Harbage Consulting,
which is headquartered in California's state capitol. The firm does political
consulting; past clients include Arnold "The Terminator" Schwarzenegger. Harbage also consults with private and public-sector
clients "with a focus on increasing value in healthcare delivery," according
to the firm's website.

A Fresno homecare worker who was intimidated by SEIU

For any clients who are considering hiring
Malberg, you might want to check out these
reports -- including the conclusions of a government investigation -- about her role in SEIU’s campaign of threats, intimidation
and ballot tampering aimed at pressuring low-wage homecare workers to vote for SEIU in an election.

The reports speak volumes about
Malberg’s integrity and moral principles. After all… what kind of person would threaten
low-wage immigrant homecare workers with deportation in order to win a vote?

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Andy Stern, SEIU’s President
Emeritus, has joined the board of yet another for-profit corporation.

Stern, who already serves on
the board of SIGA
Technologies (a pharmaceutical company controlled by billionaire Ron Perelman), recently joined the
Advisory Board of “BeneStream,” a
start-up venture headquartered in New York.

BeneStream pledges to deliver "piles
of money" to large corporations by helping them push their low-wage workers
onto the taxpayer-funded Medicaid rolls.

What does BeneStream do?

Under Obamacare, large
companies will be required to provide health insurance to all of their
employees beginning in 2015. That costs money, right? Fortunately for the Bosses, there’s
a loophole built into the law. If workers happen to sign up for Medicaid, then
companies are no longer on the hook for their health insurance.

That’s where BeneStream comes
in.

Stern's company says it’ll save companies buckets of money for the Bosses by helping them identify
low-wage workers on their payrolls and then signing them up for taxpayer-funded
Medicaid benefits. Here's an excerpt from BeneStream's website:

And here's what BeneStream’s CEO
says on a slick video featured on the company's
website:

The one solution that’ll
save you a pile of money as an employer is the BeneStream solution… We work
with employers that have 50 or more employees to screen their low-income
workforce for Medicaid and then enroll those people in Medicaid when we can,
saving employers the cost of insurance… The employer wins because they save the
cost of insuring someone...

Stern serves on BeneStream’s five-member Advisory Board with people
like Kevin Hill, a fatcat insurance
exec at companies like Oxford Health, CheckpointHR, HealthPlanOne, and United
Healthcare.

According to a press report, BeneStream recently raised "$1.58 million from angel investors.”

So how much is SEIU’s President
Emeritus pocketing for pimping for BeneStream?

Not clear. But when Stern first joined SIGA’s board in 2012, he took home 35,000 stock options and
$116,094 in cash.

Sunday, August 3, 2014

So what happened to Courtni
Pugh after she rigged a
ramrod contract-ratification vote covering 23,000 staffers at Los Angeles Unified School District…
and then promptly
resigned as SEIU Local 99’s Executive
Director so she could high-tail it out of town before the proverbial sh*t hit the fan?

According to “Politico,” Pugh has taken a job with Hilltop Public Solutions, a DC-based political
consulting firm that does tons of business with SEIU.

FIRST LOOK - Hilltop
adds SEIU's Courtni Pugh -- Forthcoming release: "Putting the finishing
touches a year of major growth, Hilltop Public Solutions [will announce] today
that veteran California organizer and political strategist Courtni Pugh has
joined the firm and will oversee Hilltop's new Los Angeles office. Courtni most
recently served as Executive Director of the Service Employees International
United (SEIU) Local 99.

Hilltop -- which also does business as S&B Public Solutions LLC -- is headed by Nick Baldick and has run multi-million dollar campaigns for SEIU, according
to the firm's website.

It's par for the course at the Purple Palace -- yet another soft landing for a top SEIU official.

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